Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Okay, it seems that I didn’t take as many notes this time but we did talk a lot about the Mid Autumn Moon Festival which happens to be on October 6th this year. The teacher brought in Moon Cakes for us to try. They are a sort of pastry with bean paste inside (or lotus seed) and there was a preserved egg yolk in the middle. Well, I wasn’t too fond of the preserved yolk but the lotus paste and pastry wasn’t too bad.

Zhong qiu jie (Mid Autumn Festival)The 15th of the 8th lunar month is the Chinese Moon Festival also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhong qiu jie is one of the most important traditions in China, second to only the Chinese New Year. It is the time to reunite with family and is known as a family gathering. The family goes out to observe the full (harvest) moon and they eat moon cakes and they recite moon poems. As they yin/yang or balance is important in Chinese culture, the yin would be the spring which is about the sun and the yang would be the autumn which would represent the moon.The history of this festival is:

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Hi, I'm Julie (creative, verbose, chocaholic) married to Stephan (aka: Hockey Dad). We have 2 great kids through adoption; Francis b: 29/01/01 adopted from Kemerovo, Russia in 2002 and Naomi b: 21/10/06 adopted from Guizhou, China in 2007.This blog started out as our journey to our daughter but has morphed into a blog about our life as a family.